Papers by Author: Shao Feng Bu

Abstract: With fog and haze increasingly severe pollution and tighter environmental legislation in China. It is urgent for refinery to reduce sulfur content in MTBE and produce cleaner fuels by deep desulfurization technology. The feasibility of pervaporation (PV) process for removal of sulfur from MTBE was investigated in this study. Adsorption capacities of three different membrane materials such as PDMS, naffion membrane with H and Na forms were compared by immersion tests. PDMS membrane showed better adsorption abilities for MTBE and disulfide. In addition, the adsorption of PDMS membrane in pure MTBE and dimethyldisulfide solution were investigated at 308.15K and 313.15K. It was indicated that increasing operation temperature facilitated to increase the adsorption amount and decrease the time for reaching adsorption equilibration. This research has guiding significance for removal of sulfur from MTBE by PV process.

Abstract: Electrodeionization (EDI) is being applied more and more to treat wastewater containing heavy metal ions, especially for electroplating rinsing wastewater. The effects of feed water conditions including concentration, pH and temperature on the performance of EDI process for removal of Ni2+ from dilute synthetic wastewater were investigated systematically in this paper. It was found that the dilute resistivity of the EDI module descended from 1.5-2.8MΩ•cm to 0.36-0.45MΩ•cm while the influent Ni2+ concentration increased from 45 mg•L^-1 to 63mg•L^-1. Existence of some H+ in feed water would push the stack current up. An increase in temperature of feed water would facilitate the ion exchange and diffusion and thus promote mass transfer. It was indicated that feed water conditions had a significant effect on separation performance of EDI process for treating dilute solutions containing heavy metal ions. Pure water production could be accomplished and water reuse could be realized via EDI technology by appropriately restricting feed water conditions.

Abstract: Applicable configuration alteration of the electrodeionization （EDI）process commonly for pure water production was carried out to treat dilute nickel wastewater in this paper. The effects of major operating parameters such as applied voltage, dilute and concentrate stream flow rates on the performance of EDI process were investigated systematically. The results showed that, with the feed water containing 50mg·L^-1 Ni²⁺ and pH of 5.7, the dilute resistivity of the EDI could reach higher than 1.0MΩ·cm which gave a Ni²⁺ rejection more than 99.8% while the Ni²⁺ was concentrated as high as 1564mg·L^-1 in the concentrate stream by optimizing the operating parameters. It was indicated that pure water production and concentrating of heavy metal ions could be simultaneously accomplished via EDI technology just in one process, valuable heavy metal and water resource could be recovered as well.

Abstract: The aim of the present work was to study the effect of properties of ion exchange membrane on separation performance of electrodeionization (EDI) process for removal of nickel ions from dilute heavy metal solutions. It was shown that the properties of ion exchange membrane had a significant effect on removal of nickel ions. With feed water containing nickel ions at the concentration of 55mg•L^-1, the nickel ions concentration of dilute stream was lower than 0.5mg•L^-1 and the nickel rejection was greater than 99% when using EDI membranes, while that was in the range of 2.48-3.55mg•L^-1 with conventional heterogeneous ion exchange membranes. With optimum ion exchange material and operating conditions, EDI would be a very interesting and innovative technology for the treatment of dilute heavy metal solutions.